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the plain and simple thing is it is in mitch mcconnell's interest to gum up the works. he does better politically if it doesn't improve. >> sure, it's one thing, delivered obstruction is another. the argument from the president and democrats in congress is look, both sides agree on extending the bush tax cuts, so why won't mitch mcconnell and his buddies agree on that part of it now. >> it would be except they know if they let that happen now, they're never going to get that tax cut through for the over 2%. the wealthiest americans, because if you attach it on to that, to everybody else's tax, we're keeping everybody's taxes low, but can you imagine them, try to do this one in october. a special tax cut for the 2% of the wealthiest americans. they want to get that in any way they can and do not want to let this get through any way. they'd rather have nothing happen. >> nothing is certainly what we're getting. you wrote an interesting column this week about how all the giants of the senate have disappeared. why are we missing that kind of leadership today? are we going s
the plain and simple thing is it is in mitch mcconnell's interest to gum up the works. he does better politically if it doesn't improve. >> sure, it's one thing, delivered obstruction is another. the argument from the president and democrats in congress is look, both sides agree on extending the bush tax cuts, so why won't mitch mcconnell and his buddies agree on that part of it now. >> it would be except they know if they let that happen now, they're never going to get that tax cut...
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back in charlotte tonight house minority whip is taking to the stage. >> there is senator mish mcconnell setd the number win priority was the defeat of president obama. and not creation of jobs or reduction of our debt and deficit. not ensuring access to health care. not educating our children. not tending to the needs of americans with disabilities but to tee feet our president. >> democrats to the the only ones here in charlotte. many republicans, here, too. are they thaik making sure their messages aren't dropping out by the crowd? nice to see you. >> and just mentioned job numbers out friday. it feels hike a casino in the terms if they're go g.it's going to help the president in his convention. and if bad it puts a damper he promise fd you passed his so called stimulus bill that there is i think. >> it's probably going to be over 8%. so if this is coming down that is a good trend numbers. >> i don't think any president is going to reelect with number that's badly. in the hall tonight former president clinton yelled at the crowd are you better off now than four years ago? they all yel
back in charlotte tonight house minority whip is taking to the stage. >> there is senator mish mcconnell setd the number win priority was the defeat of president obama. and not creation of jobs or reduction of our debt and deficit. not ensuring access to health care. not educating our children. not tending to the needs of americans with disabilities but to tee feet our president. >> democrats to the the only ones here in charlotte. many republicans, here, too. are they thaik making...
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but mitch mcconnell seems to think that's a possibility. as the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell is most concerned with senate seats and that's what he's backstopping here when pitching to donors. but the pitch he's making to republican donors is amazing. he's pitching that republicans need to work hard and collect your hard-earned money to hold on to seats in the senate because the republicans will lose the house and incidentally saying that mitt romney will lose the race for the white house. it's like it goes without saying for these guys now. this is the guy more in charge of the republican message than anybody else in the country. and his pitch is mitt romney is going to lose. you need us so democrats don't control everything. everybody has been waiting to find out if mitt romney looks like such a losing prospect that republicans will be cut lose to essentially campaign on their own to campaign against them. but campaigning on the assumption that it mitt romney is going to lose? that's something new. and it's even weirde
but mitch mcconnell seems to think that's a possibility. as the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell is most concerned with senate seats and that's what he's backstopping here when pitching to donors. but the pitch he's making to republican donors is amazing. he's pitching that republicans need to work hard and collect your hard-earned money to hold on to seats in the senate because the republicans will lose the house and incidentally saying that mitt romney will lose the race for...
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>> harry reid has been talking with senator mcconnell with their house counterparts. i can't prejudge or confirm the conversations. the sense we have is that they're beginning to listen as they have over the last several weeks to thousands of families across the country who are looking at already an enormous debt burden students have and seeing it double and particular irony is the federal reserve is lending to banks at a rate of close to 1% and we're doubling student interest rates. that logic and the per situation has come not so much from inside the capital but from outside families saying you can't do this. we've reached a point conceptually that we're not going to do it now. i think we've reached a rate to pay for it. >> how great is that that you have citizens and their families calling senators and hopefully house members to put the pressure on opinion there's a sign of hope in terms of democracy. can i just back up for one second? >> surely. >> in less than two decades the united states slipped from first to 16th in the world for college graduation rates. you'
>> harry reid has been talking with senator mcconnell with their house counterparts. i can't prejudge or confirm the conversations. the sense we have is that they're beginning to listen as they have over the last several weeks to thousands of families across the country who are looking at already an enormous debt burden students have and seeing it double and particular irony is the federal reserve is lending to banks at a rate of close to 1% and we're doubling student interest rates. that...
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mitch mcconnell at this point does not support the mcconnell plan at all. he didn't think democrats did either. and yesterday he wanted to call their bluff. now that is when c-span 2 suddenly became amazing television. yesterday afternoon mitch mcconnell asked the senate to move to an immediate vote on the mcconnell plan. vote on it now. you figured harry reid would back down. prove that even democrats don't like this idea. but reid did not back down. he doubled down. he said, yeah, let's vote on the plan. but let's move to an immediate up or down vote. no filibuster, no 60-vote requirement, let's see if it gets 51. if so, it's passed. at which point, mcconnell kind of filibustered his own bill. he said, no, if we're not going to have a 60-vote threshold, there would be no vote at all. he got his wish and then e he launched a filibuster or a 60-vote challenge against a vote he asked for. claire mccaskill was senate president at the time. here was her reaction. >> is their objection to the original request? >> yeah. >> objection is heard. i got whiplash. >>
mitch mcconnell at this point does not support the mcconnell plan at all. he didn't think democrats did either. and yesterday he wanted to call their bluff. now that is when c-span 2 suddenly became amazing television. yesterday afternoon mitch mcconnell asked the senate to move to an immediate vote on the mcconnell plan. vote on it now. you figured harry reid would back down. prove that even democrats don't like this idea. but reid did not back down. he doubled down. he said, yeah, let's vote...
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senate minority leader mcconnell saying both sides are close to a deal. it's about time. >> my preference would have been to solve all these problems in the context of a larger agreement, a bigger deal, a grand bargain. whatever you want to call it. that solves our deficit problems in a balanced and responsible way. with this congress, that was obviously a little bit too much to hope for at this time. it may be we can do it in stages. >> there are a number of issues on which the two sides are still apart but negotiations are continuing as i speak. but we really are running out of time. >> the vice president and i have worked together on solutions before and i believe we can again. >> no holiday for the best political team around. a triple threat, luke russert and mike viqueira on the capitol hill and kristen welker from the white house. are you happy to be working on the holiday? >> it's fantastic. >> absolutely. >> sounded believable. viq, let's start with you. we have news trickling out today. working, trying to make a deal. what's going on? >> it's was
senate minority leader mcconnell saying both sides are close to a deal. it's about time. >> my preference would have been to solve all these problems in the context of a larger agreement, a bigger deal, a grand bargain. whatever you want to call it. that solves our deficit problems in a balanced and responsible way. with this congress, that was obviously a little bit too much to hope for at this time. it may be we can do it in stages. >> there are a number of issues on which the two...
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a largely symbolic move. >> still, elections change things, and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell argued if republicans take charge next year, the law would be on the agenda. >> taxes are clearly what we call reconcilable, the kind of measure that can be pursued with 51 votes in the senate, and if i'm the leader of the majority next year, i commit to the apaern people that the repeal of obama care will be job one. by the way, i think we will also be invisting we have a vote on obama care again before the election. but in terms of achieving it, it would take another senate with a different majority leader and a different senate. >> democratic senator chuck schumer warns if republicans push a vote, they'll pay on election day. >> i think if republicans make, as their number one issue, the repeal of health care, they're certainly going to lose the election in the house, the senate, and the pres dnlsy. bottom line is most americans are not for repeal. >> a poll taken just this week shows the majority of americans favor repeal of all or part of health care law. that's today's sound of
a largely symbolic move. >> still, elections change things, and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell argued if republicans take charge next year, the law would be on the agenda. >> taxes are clearly what we call reconcilable, the kind of measure that can be pursued with 51 votes in the senate, and if i'm the leader of the majority next year, i commit to the apaern people that the repeal of obama care will be job one. by the way, i think we will also be invisting we have a vote on...
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does boehner and mcconnell#+c figure out the best thing to do is do a of the of the pick tíq scab if now and start anew when calendar turns?it will be ier races that have not been decided members of congress are in trouble. the open seat in arizona. second. gabby gifford's former seat. the open sea in arizona nine uncalled. dan lun green is votes. the open seat in california 26. we don't know what will happen there. 100% are in . mary bono mack is behind. will she join her husband coming an congress. bilbray is behind with 100% reporting in california as we mentioned already, incumbent allen west is behind in florida 18 with all the votes counted. representative menechek is leading. that appears to be a couple thousand votes apart. ke mcintyre, will he be one of the few blue dogs that remains? he has a small lead. there will be a run-off for one house seat in louisian the third two republicans there. but if all those leads hold, nbc news is current ly projecting they could pick up eight seats in the house again. yes, we know all those 100%. mail ballots particularly out in the state
does boehner and mcconnell#+c figure out the best thing to do is do a of the of the pick tíq scab if now and start anew when calendar turns?it will be ier races that have not been decided members of congress are in trouble. the open seat in arizona. second. gabby gifford's former seat. the open sea in arizona nine uncalled. dan lun green is votes. the open seat in california 26. we don't know what will happen there. 100% are in . mary bono mack is behind. will she join her husband coming an...
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he will find other ways to create headaches for both boehner and mcconnell, but i agree with david. most importantly, it may be a slight relief from the headache for john boehner, but he's still got a big challenge in that he is negotiating at this point with himself and not facing the reality that he doesn't really have a lot of leverage. >> indeed. jared, speaking of the details themselves, speaker boehner is saying that his is a serious offer that produces sufficient revenue and savings for the next decade. you're an economist, does it? do his numbers really add up? >> well, no, they don't add up because they lack any level of specificity that you would need to even write them down and put a plus sign next to them so see if they'd add up. he did the same -- >> hang on a second though. he said he stuck $800 billion in revenues on the table. >> so he did the same maneuver that mitt romney did, and as i have said, that's the kind of thing you might want to do in a presidential campaign. though interestingly, it didn't work for mitt romney. he said i can raise "x" billion, he said $8
he will find other ways to create headaches for both boehner and mcconnell, but i agree with david. most importantly, it may be a slight relief from the headache for john boehner, but he's still got a big challenge in that he is negotiating at this point with himself and not facing the reality that he doesn't really have a lot of leverage. >> indeed. jared, speaking of the details themselves, speaker boehner is saying that his is a serious offer that produces sufficient revenue and...
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house speaker john boehner, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. let's listen to those. >> i will be proud to support mitt romney and do everything i can to help him win. >> yeah, i support governor romney for president of the united states, and he is going to be the nominee. and as you notice, the party is in the process of unifying behind him. and i think it's going to be an incredibly close, hard-fought race. >> steve, mitch mcconnell forgot to say that mitt romney's going to win. >> well, look. i think if you're the romney campaign, you're just thrilled to death to be outside of this primary window now. and when you have the speaker, you have the minority leader, what they essentially did today is ended the race inside the republican party. mitt romney's going to be the nominee. he has to go through ministerially now the rest of this process, but we're in the general election now. and of course, as you pointed out earlier, mitt romney's going to have a lot of work to do. and to ezra's point, mitt romney's going to have to define what american c
house speaker john boehner, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. let's listen to those. >> i will be proud to support mitt romney and do everything i can to help him win. >> yeah, i support governor romney for president of the united states, and he is going to be the nominee. and as you notice, the party is in the process of unifying behind him. and i think it's going to be an incredibly close, hard-fought race. >> steve, mitch mcconnell forgot to say that mitt romney's...
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. >>> coming up, mitch mcconnell puts romney on the spot. romney won't give away any specifics on any job plans, on any plans he has, actually. bob said he will follow the same strategy as another presidential hopeful. >>> and a catholic group of catholic nuns is speaking out against the gop budget plan and they're taking their message on the road. i'll talk with the organizer with the nuns on the bus later in the hour. share your thoughts on twitter using the hash tag ed show. we're coming right back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." president obama really has mitt romney totally boxed in by the administration's new immigration policy. mitt romney can still not give a direct answer to a direct question. here he is with fox new's carl cameron. >> why not provide the similar certainty by saying, well, until such time as i pass a new leaders in the past few decades, and it says a lot about an emerging american majority. the country is changing. another shooting war. >> great to have you with us. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> co
. >>> coming up, mitch mcconnell puts romney on the spot. romney won't give away any specifics on any job plans, on any plans he has, actually. bob said he will follow the same strategy as another presidential hopeful. >>> and a catholic group of catholic nuns is speaking out against the gop budget plan and they're taking their message on the road. i'll talk with the organizer with the nuns on the bus later in the hour. share your thoughts on twitter using the hash tag ed...
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that was mitch mcconnell's strategy. deny him a vote, make him look like a partisan figure and people will think he's unacceptble. chris christie who is not shy about calling people out, saying he's doing a good job and he's a democrat, then maybe he's not quite as extreme as some people on the right including mitt romney have said. >> you heard him say, chris fugate, not to bring him. chris fugate was jeb bush's hurricane guy. so, you know, for all this talk of obama being so polarizing he hired jeb bush's hurricane expert as his fema executive. >> i think to richard's point, this bipartisan bologna that mitt romney has been proposing over the last few days, is absolutely nonsensical when you look at his record in massachusetts, but also bear in mind mitt romney called republican governors yesterday. the president didn't. he called governors who are in states that are affected. and that's the big difference between these two men. and i think that that's what the audience, the public, sorry, and your audience, alex, are
that was mitch mcconnell's strategy. deny him a vote, make him look like a partisan figure and people will think he's unacceptble. chris christie who is not shy about calling people out, saying he's doing a good job and he's a democrat, then maybe he's not quite as extreme as some people on the right including mitt romney have said. >> you heard him say, chris fugate, not to bring him. chris fugate was jeb bush's hurricane guy. so, you know, for all this talk of obama being so polarizing...
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long said some parts of the law may be worth preserving or reworking, but senate minority leader mitch mcconnell appeared to hedge when asked how millions of americans could afford health care without the president's law. >> what specifically are you going to do to provide universal coverage to the 30 million people who are uninsured? >> that is not the issue. the question is, how can you go step by step to improve the american health care system? it is already the finest health care system in the world. >> but you don't think that 30 million -- >> what our friends on the other -- [ everyone talking at once ] >> the uninsured is an issue? >> let me tell you what we're not going to do. we're not going to turn the american health care system into a western european system. >> on sunday, the president's chief of staff linked the affordable care act to the health care mitt romney passed in massachusetts when he was governor, an association the speaker would rather do without. >> we have experience in massachusetts that shows us that people want health insurance, if they can afford it. the fact that
long said some parts of the law may be worth preserving or reworking, but senate minority leader mitch mcconnell appeared to hedge when asked how millions of americans could afford health care without the president's law. >> what specifically are you going to do to provide universal coverage to the 30 million people who are uninsured? >> that is not the issue. the question is, how can you go step by step to improve the american health care system? it is already the finest health...
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mcconnell does not see it that way. on the political wire the romney's campaign would have could have should have transition website today. surely, this was not supposed to go live until mr. romney actually won the election. the campaign did not wait. they presumably accidentally put it up, a transition website for president-elect romney, how to apply for a job with the new romney administration. looks like because they screen shot it before they finally did take it down, looks like the romney folks had a transition motto all ready to go, a slogan, repeated slogan on the website is smaller, simpler, smarter. when republican speaker of the house john boehner gave his first post election press conference what he thought should happen in this country given the results of the election almost like he thought he was speaking in the context of president-elect romney and smaller simpler smaller branded transition. >> by working together and creating a fairer simpler cleaner tax code, moving to fairer simpler system energized by
mcconnell does not see it that way. on the political wire the romney's campaign would have could have should have transition website today. surely, this was not supposed to go live until mr. romney actually won the election. the campaign did not wait. they presumably accidentally put it up, a transition website for president-elect romney, how to apply for a job with the new romney administration. looks like because they screen shot it before they finally did take it down, looks like the romney...
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you've got mitch mcconnell, who's running for re-election. you've got eric cantor, looking over speaker boehner's shoulder. he'd love to have that job. i mean, how can you get an honest broker out of the republican camp, when all of this stuff is swimming around? you've got the hard right-wing tea partyers out there. you've got mcconnell looking at possibly being in a real tough re-election. and as i said, you know, boehner, is he protecting his backside or the american people? i mean, this doesn't have the framework or the dichotomy of a good deal from their standpoint, does it? >> well, i think one of the reasons that they're on defense is the fact that the president is willing to take this fight outside the beltway. inside the beltway, there's a whole fuzzy logic that starts to apply, where you lose track of what it means to be in the middle class and how serious the economic situation is. and i think as the president continues to make that case about basic economic fairness, one that nearly two-thirds of voters in this election felt that
you've got mitch mcconnell, who's running for re-election. you've got eric cantor, looking over speaker boehner's shoulder. he'd love to have that job. i mean, how can you get an honest broker out of the republican camp, when all of this stuff is swimming around? you've got the hard right-wing tea partyers out there. you've got mcconnell looking at possibly being in a real tough re-election. and as i said, you know, boehner, is he protecting his backside or the american people? i mean, this...
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treasury secretary timothy geithner net with the top four congressional leaders pelosi, ma con el, mcconnell and reid and he brought a specific plan from the white house with him. that plan from the president in trying to resolve the fiscal cliff asks for, $1.6 trillion in new revenue. and that's supposed to come from raising taxes on the wealthiest. the president's plan asks for an extension of the payroll tax cut. and an extension of unemployment insurance benefits. it asks for a deferral of those automatic sequester cuts to defense spending and to local -- to domestic spend being. and it also asks, i love this one, a multi-year stimulus package, including $50 billion next year, much of that is going to go to recipients creating an infrastructure bank. the president also wants to refinance under water mortgages. and permanently increase the deposit limit without congressional approval every time. the president in bringing this list forward in his plan to resolve the fiscal cliff is just really going for it in this negotiation. he's aiming for the fences, and he has a mandate folks and he's
treasury secretary timothy geithner net with the top four congressional leaders pelosi, ma con el, mcconnell and reid and he brought a specific plan from the white house with him. that plan from the president in trying to resolve the fiscal cliff asks for, $1.6 trillion in new revenue. and that's supposed to come from raising taxes on the wealthiest. the president's plan asks for an extension of the payroll tax cut. and an extension of unemployment insurance benefits. it asks for a deferral of...
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. >> but we're already seeing statements like this one from senator mitch mcconnell who said last night, quote, now it's time for the president to propose solutionce of passing the republican-controlled house of representatives. perhaps setting the stage gridl republicans maintained solid;[ majority in the next hour we're expecting to hear of house speaker john boehner. right now, joining me, national syndicated talk show host michael smirconish and joe frolic for "the cleveland plain dealer." thank you all for joining. michael, when's the reaction you're hearing from people you talk to all day on the radio? >> nerds rule. >> we know that from high school. >> well, when all is said and done, though, the data trumped the emotion. there was a huge debate that broke out in the last couple of days. how could nate silver and the poll-driven individuals believe there's a 90% chance that the president would rwin re-electio? the nbc in the 11:00 hour. that's a stunning development. >> i believe one of our colleagues sweeted it took the president 12 minutes longer aro >> right. >> in pennsylvani
. >> but we're already seeing statements like this one from senator mitch mcconnell who said last night, quote, now it's time for the president to propose solutionce of passing the republican-controlled house of representatives. perhaps setting the stage gridl republicans maintained solid;[ majority in the next hour we're expecting to hear of house speaker john boehner. right now, joining me, national syndicated talk show host michael smirconish and joe frolic for "the cleveland...
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>> the ball seems to be in mitch mcconnell's court. does he filibuster anything that harry reid ends up making with president obama? we have a paired down legislation extending for income below $250,000 and doing something with unemployment insurance that you were talking about? the question is a senate filibuster, democrats need 60 votes and republican votes, mcconnell ends up filibustering and will there be senators who support the legislation and blocking the filibuster. a lot of gymsmanship and republicans when you lock at the situation in the house and the inability to pass along the other things, they are on the verge of taking a lot of blame if they filibuster the legislation and the house doesn't act on it. >> and only democratic support developing here. how much is he going to agree with the president when he has the election in 2014? some folks don't want to appear in any way too close to president obama right now. >> let's move on in terms of massachusetts. we got the information that ted kennedy jr. will not run. scott brow
>> the ball seems to be in mitch mcconnell's court. does he filibuster anything that harry reid ends up making with president obama? we have a paired down legislation extending for income below $250,000 and doing something with unemployment insurance that you were talking about? the question is a senate filibuster, democrats need 60 votes and republican votes, mcconnell ends up filibustering and will there be senators who support the legislation and blocking the filibuster. a lot of...
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the fact is, i agree with senator mcconnell. we've got to take on this debt issue. we've got to recognize $16 trillion in debt, $4 event 5 billion a day we add to it but it's going to take a balanced plan, like simpson-bowles, like our gang of six, that has revenue and entitlement reform and the notion that it will be done on one side of the balance sheet with spending cuts only, there's no responsible out there that has looked at this problem that says you have to do both. >> schieffer: senator graham, how would you respond to that? >> i would say that most americans believe that we're so far in debt that their children's future is at risk, and if we're going to raise the debt seale ago we already borrow 40 cents of every dollar-- for every dollar we borrow in the future we ought to cut the government by an equivalent dollar is not radical. it's something we should have been doing a long time ago. and there's not a snowball's chance in hell that we're going to get out of debt, reform entitlements and control spending without presidential leadership. so what boehner
the fact is, i agree with senator mcconnell. we've got to take on this debt issue. we've got to recognize $16 trillion in debt, $4 event 5 billion a day we add to it but it's going to take a balanced plan, like simpson-bowles, like our gang of six, that has revenue and entitlement reform and the notion that it will be done on one side of the balance sheet with spending cuts only, there's no responsible out there that has looked at this problem that says you have to do both. >> schieffer:...
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he needs mcconnell. if he can get mcconnell and a couple senate republicans, then -- >> what about the body of 40 or so tea partiers who are holdouts. how does he reach them? the ones necessary for any kind of majority? >> he doesn't necessarily need them. if he can get senate republicans, then -- >> is that his game right now to go around his hard core right? >> it is. because then the hard core right isn't just blaming john boehner for all the troubles of the world. they're also -- >> can he allow the house of representatives to work its will with the minority of republicans? >> yes, he can. >> glen, is this your view? if we get a sol lux next week it's probably because a speaker allows a minority of republicans, maybe less than 100, to agree with some 120 democrats and out of that will be a deal because it came through the senate somehow that they both had to go that way. is that how it looks like it will develop here? >> that was the undercurrent to what harry reid said today is if this guy opens thi
he needs mcconnell. if he can get mcconnell and a couple senate republicans, then -- >> what about the body of 40 or so tea partiers who are holdouts. how does he reach them? the ones necessary for any kind of majority? >> he doesn't necessarily need them. if he can get senate republicans, then -- >> is that his game right now to go around his hard core right? >> it is. because then the hard core right isn't just blaming john boehner for all the troubles of the world....
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he also thinks that mitch mcconnell's famous statement about my number one job is to defeat the president, that will now be moot. and so that there will be a different dynamic in washington. i don't see any evidence of that. >> i don't see evidence of it, either, and i think his failure to build personal relationships with them and spending the last year trying to define the election has left things in a bad state. his best friend is the fiscal cliff and the reality that there is a way to construct on paper that we can sit around this table and based on their public positions and what we think their political needs are, we can come up with a deal. tax reform -- >> everybody can. the math isn't that hard. >> rose: there's some variation of simpson-bowles. >> with different kinds of revenue in bowles-simpson and different revenue reduction and bowles-simpson didn't do social security and this i think will. if he does that it transforms things. he can move on to energy and other things. if he doesn't, i think he's got a crippled four-year presidency because it's hard to see how if he can't g
he also thinks that mitch mcconnell's famous statement about my number one job is to defeat the president, that will now be moot. and so that there will be a different dynamic in washington. i don't see any evidence of that. >> i don't see evidence of it, either, and i think his failure to build personal relationships with them and spending the last year trying to define the election has left things in a bad state. his best friend is the fiscal cliff and the reality that there is a way to...
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don't validate mitch mcconnell and eric cantor and john boehner's strategy. their whole strategy was to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct and get a new president with the purpose of making it seem that the president was unsuccessful. >> well, make it seem that this president was responsible. >> even on something that hadn't gotten any attention at all and should in the last few days. let's just take three quick issues. so embassy security. they blocked obama on sending a $300 million for embassy security. infrastructure. the president had a jobs bill that provided infrastructure. we all now understand how important infrastructure is. they blocked him on that. climate change. that bill passed the house and was blocked by mitch mcconnell in the senate to begin to do something about this. remember, at the convention mitt romney made fun of barack obama for saying that the tides were rising. well, now we find out they are. >> yes, indeed. jonathan, thanks so much. >>> coming up, team romney sinks to a new low, even for them. >> it's just marvelous to have folks in the
don't validate mitch mcconnell and eric cantor and john boehner's strategy. their whole strategy was to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct and get a new president with the purpose of making it seem that the president was unsuccessful. >> well, make it seem that this president was responsible. >> even on something that hadn't gotten any attention at all and should in the last few days. let's just take three quick issues. so embassy security. they blocked obama on sending a $300 million for...
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in the senate, senator mcconnell said his number 1 job was to defeat the president not to put the country back on track not to create jobs we need, not to work across the aisle to find a common ground strategy to put people to work. i can tell you that in the cities we don't put the blame on the president but on a congress that has failed to act. >> that's encouraging to hear. >> mr. vice president, it's so frustrating to be a president or an executive and have opposition in the congress and explain. it's a complicated message to explain to people. you are in charge. why haven't you fixed it yet? as a spokesperson, how do you get above a complicated message like that? >> it's simpler than a lot of people make it. the americans realize the tea party republicans have been pure restructionists. they have said no to everything. even to extending -- they tried to stop the expense of unemployment compensation for all of these people out of work when we need that extra demand in the scampeconomy. i think people also know that president obama did inherit the worst economic situation we have had s
in the senate, senator mcconnell said his number 1 job was to defeat the president not to put the country back on track not to create jobs we need, not to work across the aisle to find a common ground strategy to put people to work. i can tell you that in the cities we don't put the blame on the president but on a congress that has failed to act. >> that's encouraging to hear. >> mr. vice president, it's so frustrating to be a president or an executive and have opposition in the...
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yeah, but it's -- if it's demint versus mitch mcconnell, mitch mcconnell wins. >> and he's going to win this thing. the question is how do they manage -- >> what do you do? >> -- republican leaders have not figured out how to manage the base. that's a fact. >> the whole campaign on the president level, they get pushed to the right. >> thatd don't know how to manage. >> because of the conservative bubble. on the down ballot level they nominate candidates who come out of that bubble and a policy or -- >> or they did mainstream candidates like george allen who feels the need to placate -- >> of course. and on policy. and on policy, there's a roadblock from moving towards stances on issues like immigration because you're going to get blowback from the base. but keep in mind what happened yesterday township it wasn't just john boehner who moved on immigration. sean hannity said he had evolved on the immigration issue. election type consequences. >> this is the problem i feel like. that your natural tendency in politics is to say, we'll let our voters work their will. that's always there. we'
yeah, but it's -- if it's demint versus mitch mcconnell, mitch mcconnell wins. >> and he's going to win this thing. the question is how do they manage -- >> what do you do? >> -- republican leaders have not figured out how to manage the base. that's a fact. >> the whole campaign on the president level, they get pushed to the right. >> thatd don't know how to manage. >> because of the conservative bubble. on the down ballot level they nominate candidates who...
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he said for mitch mcconnell i'll go three to one. every dollar he pace, i'll pay three times as much. do you know much mitch mcconnell has paid extra? zero. not at all because they don't mean a word of it. you think if they're paying low taxes, their profits must be in trouble, right? sixty year high for profits. you ready for this number? in the third quarter of 2011 alone, $1.97 trillion in a quarter of a year. when it comes to taxes, they're not going to pay it. from 1950 to 2009, i this i this is a killer chart. great, look at this. i don't know if you can see it here, but this is corporate taxes. as a percentage of all of our taxes, it nose dives from around 30% to around six to 5%. you see the photograph going way up? that's the percentage of taxes paid by us through the payroll tax. somebodied got to pay the tax so when corporations don't pay the taxes, who does? you do! the percentage of taxes you pay through the payroll tax goes way up. look, this is about justice. corporations aren't paying too much, they're paying too litt
he said for mitch mcconnell i'll go three to one. every dollar he pace, i'll pay three times as much. do you know much mitch mcconnell has paid extra? zero. not at all because they don't mean a word of it. you think if they're paying low taxes, their profits must be in trouble, right? sixty year high for profits. you ready for this number? in the third quarter of 2011 alone, $1.97 trillion in a quarter of a year. when it comes to taxes, they're not going to pay it. from 1950 to 2009, i this i...
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senate seats that will determine who is the majority leader in the senate, whether it will be mitch mcconnell or harry reid come next january. let's start in nevada. who is going to win the senate race there which is, you know, again, the republicans thought they had easily. >> tough call here. shelley shelley berkley has been hobbled by an ethics investigation. she stayed in the game. polls are very tight there. the democrats do have a registration advantage. they've got the harry reid machine that was put in place in 2010 and pulled him over the line. many people thought harry reid was done. they debate later tonight. that will be very interesting to see the contrast between dean heller who is a milquetoast republican. he doesn't say a lot of incendiary things. he will be tough on berkeley saying she's the most corrupt person he's ever met. berkeley is hitting him on the issue of medicare because he voted for the ryan budget twice. polls are very, very close there. i would give a slight edge to heller. >> eliot: what does it mean that the voters in nevada don't seem to care that she and ber
senate seats that will determine who is the majority leader in the senate, whether it will be mitch mcconnell or harry reid come next january. let's start in nevada. who is going to win the senate race there which is, you know, again, the republicans thought they had easily. >> tough call here. shelley shelley berkley has been hobbled by an ethics investigation. she stayed in the game. polls are very tight there. the democrats do have a registration advantage. they've got the harry reid...